Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Recommend: Absolutely, 100%
Synopsis: The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes she's gaining an intimate knowledge of her new neighbor's nocturnal adventures. Thanks to paper-thin walls and the guy's athletic prowess, she can hear not just his bed banging against the wall but the ecstatic response of what seems (as loud night after loud night goes by) like an endless parade of women. And since Caroline is currently on a self-imposed dating hiatus, and her neighbor is clearly lethally attractive to women, she finds her fantasies keep her awake even longer than the noise. So when the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts Simon Parker, her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. The tension between them is as thick as the walls are thin, and the results just as mixed. Suddenly, Caroline is finding she may have discovered a whole new definition of neighborly...
Review: I LOVED this book.... like really really loved it. The story follows Caroline, a twenty-six year old interior designer who lives in San Francisco. Her boss, Jillian, offers to let her rent the apartment she sublets, an apartment she had prior to becoming engaged. The story begins the night that Caroline moves in, it's that night she first encounters the sex fiend next door, really named Simon, nicknamed to Caroline and her friends, Wallbanger. Simon, who is a photographer, turns out to be so much more than Caroline first thought he was. As they get to know each other, they realize that they were much more alike than originally thought and that changes everything. This book was incredibly good, the characters were fantastic, and the sexual tension was through the goddamn roof. I was totally and completely engrossed in Simon and Caroline's love story and as predictable as it was, i couldn't help but bite my nails as i turned each page. This was my first Alice Clayton novel and it for sure will not be my last, i love her writing style and her humor. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the Cocktail Series and her Redhead Series as well!
What I Liked: The development of Caroline and Simon's relationship was, to me, very realistic. I felt like they could have been real life neighbors that happened to fall in love. Caroline, oh Caroline, i loved her personality and just her everything. She was hilarious and could always throw it right back at Simon. The verbal foreplay between the two was perfect, they were always going off on each other and i loved that. The slow realization of the feelings, specifically on Simon's part was great. Since this wasn't a duel POV book, everything we got about Simon came from Caroline and i feel like Clayton really gave good clues and cue's as to how Simon was beginning to feel about Caroline. Clive the cat!!!! That little fur ball was comedic gold and i am so glad that he was a part of this book, especially the last two pages of the book from his POV, priceless. I have a very hard time normally connecting to female characters, i always have, especially in New Adult but i just totally clicked with Caroline. She wasn't dumb, she could hold her own in a battle of wits, she knew what she wanted and didn't back down from a challenge, she was pretty bad ass and i loved her for that. The sexual innuendos present in there text's was amazing, i love how easily Simon and Caroline could talk to each other and how well they clicked from pretty much the moment they met.
What I Didn't Like: The last twenty or so pages of the book was all sex and i really could have done without that. I'm happy that Caroline got her O back, but i didn't need descriptions of them having sex on every surface of her house. I wish there was a little more of Jillian than there was, we saw a lot of Mimi and Sophia so i was just hoping there there would be more of Jillian, i really liked her a lot. I think there should have been a bit more struggle to get her O back, i don't know it seemed to come back real fast after all that time. The thing with James was useless and pretty pointless to the story in my opinion, i just didn't like it and didn't like that Caroline went out with him again after how he used to belittle her. Spain was also really fast, but i did like how they both kept bringing it up that there relationship wasn't exactly normal.
Some of my favorite Lines from the book:
- "Sweet Lord, there were out-of-control pussies on both sides of this wall tonight"
- "You smell like tequila and sexual repression, Caroline. Get Off Me."
- "Get your ass over here right now, you motherfucking scary movie pusher,"
- "God, he gave good meatball"
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